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Cover Reveal: SAMSARA - Il Terzo Romanzo della Trilogia Naraka

Cover Reveal: L'illustrazione di copertina di Wendy Saber Core del romanzo SAMSARA, terzo romanzo della Trilogia Naraka, in uscita a Maggio 2018 per Independent Legions, prenotabile a prezzo speciale sullo store dell'Editore.

Disponibile IL GIARDINO DELLE DELIZIE - Killer Edition

Disponibile sullo store Independent Legions IL GIARDINO DELLE DELIZIE, edizione Italiana della mia raccolta di racconti 'The Garden of Delight' (Comet Press, 2017), opera finalista agli Splatterpunk Awards 2018 come 'Best Collection'. Il libro è una edizione 'collection' a tiratura super-limitata (66 copie), numerata e firmata, con contenuti extra e speciali (rispetto all'edizione americana).
Illustrazione di copertina di Wendy Saber Core, illustrazioni di quarta, bandelle e interne di Stefano Cardoselli. 260 pagine.
Acquista il libro sullo Store dell'editore Contiene i racconti: Il Giardino delle Delizie (2016), Lu’lu (2015), Il Re che Dorme (2016), Der Bruter (2014), Lo Sciamano (2014), By the Sea (2016), L’Uomo che Mangiava Fiori (2016), Malanima (2014), La Mattanza delle Sirene (2015), Regnum Congo (2015), L’Inferno di Capelli Lunghi (2015), Limbus (2015), Fiori di Carne (2015), Mictlan (2014), Padroni di Mostri (2014), Il Rosario (2015), Kozmic Blues (2016), Vessel (2014), Heretic Park (2015), Verso il Monte Meru (2014).
Contenuti extra: i racconti ‘Deadwood’ (2015), ‘Il Mitreo’ (2015), ‘La Gabbia d’Oro’ (2015), ‘Il Nano’ (2016), ‘In Servizio allo Sphinx Tatoue’ (2016), ‘Zero’ (2017), ‘Vivien Duemila Chili’ (2017).
Contenuti speciali: il racconto inedito ‘Dark Calipso’ (2018)

Premiere Readings: Edward Lee about NARAKA

Author Edward Lee about my forthcoming novel NARAKA (In English, Independent Legions, May 2018)

​“Have a taste of the ‘caviar of abomination.’ Wow! I am unable to think of a more original novel in any genre. If pressed to categorize this work which defies categorization, I’d have to call it Dystopic Alternate-Technology Reverse-Steampunk Orwellian Hallucinotic Cyber-Smut-Horror. Each paragraph is a delectable new treat in what you should think of as a diabolical Whitman’s Sampler from Hell. I’ve never taken LSD and now I don’t have to; after finishing NARAKA, its hideous, chimeral imagery raced ceaseless Tartarean circles in my brain, like a spew of appalling living things, and I was helpless to stop it. This book is a must-read for fans of any type of heavy-weight non-mainstream fiction, an unparalleled literary carpet-bombing that will warp your mind for some time to come.”
--Edward Lee, author of THE BIGHEAD and WHITE TRASH GOTHIC NARAKA by Alessandro Manzetti
​Translated  by Daniele Bonfanti
Editing: Michael Bailey
​Cover Art: Wendy Saber Core
Independent Legions, May 2018

No Mercy reviewed by Damaged Skull Blog

Live at Damaged Skull Writer and Reviewer BLog the review of my last poetry collection, No Mercy (Crystal Lake Publishing, June 2018, in collaboration with Marge Simon)
Excerpt from the review:  (...)  This is dark horror poetry at its most intense and elaborate! Taking this poetic journey with Alessandro Mazetti, readers will surely recognize some names, things, and activities. But you will not know it all and that is good. NO MERCY truly offers no mercy! It is an unstoppable flood of images flickering past the readers’ startled eyes at warp speed. A frightening intensity set upon you like an attack of piranhas. I urge you to plunge your head into this waterfall and see what terrifying wonders await you! A magical technicolor nightmare, if you will. Perhaps my words be too flowery, but I am struck dumb for mere words to explain what I saw in this collection of poems. NO MERCY brings to mind the first time that I read William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. It’s like taking an acid trip without actually dropping any acid! I don’t know about you, but I really like that feeling of being both frightened and yet laughing at the depravity. When you are done reading, the “real” world will seem so terribly normal and boring. (...)
Read the whole review at Damaged Skull blog.

Rhysling Anthology 2018: Cover Art Revealed

Science Fiction Poetry Association revealed the cover art, by Rowena Morrill, of the 2018 Rhysling Anthology - The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2017, edited by Linda Addison, containing my poems: “Apocalyptic Mass”, “A Dream of Milk and Blood" and “Frida’s Monsters”, originally published in the collection 'No Mercy' (Crystal Lake Publishing, June 2017).

Cover Reveal: WAR

Crystal Lake revealed the cover art, by Wendy Saber Core, of WAR, my new dark poetry collection, in collaboration with the amazing Marge Simon, coming out in June, 2018.

Arrived today the 2017 Specialty Press Award

Received today the 2017 HWA Specialty Press Award. Thanks to Horror Writers Association for this great recognition.
I would like to dedicated the Award to Independent Legions fantastic Team.

Disponibile su Amazon: I Figli di Uxor 77

Disponibile da oggi su Amazon, in edizione cartacea e digitale, la mia raccolta di racconti I FIGLI DI UXOR 77
Acquista la tua copia cartacea o digitale su Amazon. 

Dalla quarta di copertina: "Tutto è cambiato quando Uxor 77 si è schiantato in raffiche nell’Oceano Indiano. Cristo, uno zero di ghiaccio e antimoide, una grandinata di merda apocalittica. Là dentro, in ogni polpetta di roccia, c’erano microscopiche uova, e dentro i cuccioli delle bestie. L’hanno avvistata due anni fa quella gravida puttana, che rotolava nello spazio pisciando la sua messianica scia gialla. Bum! Un meteorite, una troia transnettuniana dalla pelle butterata e la forma di una balena senza culo e senza testa, uno zero definitivo color blu di Prussia. L’abbiamo vista tutti arrivare, avanzare giorno dopo giorno, l'Apocalisse."
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Sinossi: Dall'autore vincitore del Bram Stoker Award® tutti i racconti del distopico, cannibalico, apocalittico, depravato mondo Narakiano. Contiene i racconti: 'Pont Neuf', 'La Mattanza delle Sirene', 'Il Cubo di Berenice', 'Il Viaggio di Elora', 'Il Giardino delle Delizie', 'Kaferdammerung', 'Le Ver', 'Le Giornate di Florbelle', 'Der Brüter', 'Lo Sciamano', 'Limbus', 'Fiori di Carne', 'Vivien Duemila Chili', 'Mictlan Reloaded', 'Il Rosario', 'Le Talion', 'Kozmic Blues', 'Heretic Park', 'Il Mitreo', 'I Meridiani di Godot', 'Sangue a Berlino-Brandeburgo', 'Due Teste', 'La Processione', 'La Contessa di Sancerre', 'Un Rumore Insopportabile', 'L'ascensore di Tristan', 'Olympia e L'Uomo Tatuato', 'Ancora Arancione' e 'Zero'
Illustrazione di copertina di Wendy Saber Core. 260 pagine.

Cover Reveal: NARAKA (English Edition)

Cover Reveal (artwork by Wendy Saber Core) of the my first novel translated into English, NARAKA; coming out, from Independent Legions, in May 2018.

Arrived today: Bram Stoker Award 2017 Finalist Certificates